Women’s and Gender Studies Minor

Anthropology

• ANTH   / WGS 311 Violence against Women  

Art History

• ARTH   / WGS 220 Grant Writing for Social Justice  
• ARTH    / WGS 222 Learn to Negotiate  
• ARTH 370   / WGS 371 Women at Work: Art History and Feminism  
• ARTH 371  / WGS 372 Masculinity and American Art  

Economics

• ECON   / WGS 233 Sweatshops in the World Economy  
• ECON  / WGS 241 Women in United States Economy   

Education

• EDUC   / WGS 270 Gender and Education  

English

• ENG 236  / WGS 237 Sex, God and the Victorians  
• ENG   / WGS 240 Identity, Genre and Poetry  
• ENG  / WGS 248 Race & Ethnicity in Children’s Literature  
• ENG  /WGS 248 Race & Ethnicity in Children’s Literature  
• ENG    / WGS 343 British Modernism  
• ENG    / WGS 386 Young Adult Literature  
• WGS 312 Feminist Theory  

Film and New Media

• FNMS  / WGS 242 Horror Film and the Unruly Body  
• FNMS 243 Race, Gender and Television  
• FNMS   / WGS 322 Women and Film  
• FNMS   / WGS 345 Queer Cinema  

German

• GER   / WGS 267 Weimar and Nazi Cinema and Culture  
• GER 270  / WGS 274 Black in Berlin  
• GER   / WGS 280 The Monstrous and the Marvelous: German Fairy Tales and Folklore  
• GER 370   / WGS 374 Black in Berlin  

GLAM (Greek, Latin and Ancient Mediterranean Studies)

• GLAM 266  / WGS 266 Gender, Power and the Gods  
• GLAM 366  / WGS 366 Gender, Power and the Gods  

Hispanic Studies

• HISP 320  / WGS 325 Early Modern Feminism: Spain and the New World  
• HISP 325  / WGS 326 Queer Politics and Hispanisms  
• HISP   / WGS 370 Contemporary Women Writers of the Hispanic World  

History

• HIST  / WGS 232 Women in North America to 1790  
• HIST   / WGS 234 United States Women, 1790-1890  
• HIST 234  / WGS 238 United States Women since 1890  
• HIST   / WGS 341 Sex and Culture in the 19th Century U.S.  

Italian

• ITAS   / WGS 235 Women in Modern Italy  
• ITAS 250  / WGS 251 Love and Marriage  
• ITAS 310  / WGS 301 Fashion, Sex and the City  

Music

• MUSC 275  or WGS 276 A History of Popular Music in the U.S.A.   

Philosophy

•  PHIL 312  or WGS 312 Feminist Theory  

Political Science

• POLS  / WGS 285 Women and Politics  

Psychology

• PSY 235  / WGS 236 Human Sexuality  
• PSY   / WGS 290 The Psychology of Women  

Religion

• REL   / WGS 142 Religion and Sexuality  
• REL  / WGS 219 Gender and Sexual Violence in the Bible  

Russian

• RUSS   / WGS 284 Women in Russian Culture  
• RUSS   / WGS 384 Women in Russian Culture Advanced  

Sociology

• SOC 235  / WGS 239 Families in Transition  
• SOC   / WGS 260 Gender Inequality  
• SOC   / WGS 275 Disability and Difference  
• SOC 290  / WGS 291 Sociology of Sexualities  
• SOC  / WGS 310 Gender, Race, and Nation  

Women’s and Gender Studies

• WGS 101 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
• WGS 102 - Introduction to LGBT+ Studies
• WGS 198 - Intro to Queer & Trans Studies
• WGS 215 - Black Feminist Thought and Action or AFDS 215 Black Feminist Thought and Action  
• WGS 228 - Transnational Feminisms
• WGS 229 - Masculinities
• WGS 311 - Violence against Women
• WGS 312 - Feminist Theory
• WGS 317 - Queer Theory
• WGS 373 - Reproductive Justice
• WGS 401 - Senior Seminar

Notes

In addition, many departments offer special courses and seminars with topics applicable to the major or minor. Please see the Women’s and Gender Studies advisor for permission to count the course towards either the major or minor.

Music

• MUSC 275  / WGS 276 A History of Popular Music in the U.S.A.